rachelandrew

Happy New Year!

Due to the lurgy descending on our household, it not being particularly easy to find anywhere fun to go on New Years Eve with a small party person in tow, and us not really being that fussed we spent New Years Eve helping the Small Person to build an internal combustion engine from a kit Happy New Year!

24 Ways To Impress Your Friends

In the run up to Christmas, learn a new web development tip every day at 24 ways … by Christmas Day you’ll have a whole bunch of new exciting knowledge with which to impress your Aunties over the festive meal.

CSS Shorthand Guide

Not only does Dustin Diaz know how to cut up a pineapple, he also understands CSS Shorthand, and has produced this handy guide to the CSS Shorthand property values, which is a great reference to something not often thoroughly discussed.

So, how do you cut up a mango?

As title! The Small Person loves the slimy fruits, and I spent ten minutes this morning trying to chop the fruit off the stone without reducing the whole thing to mush. There must be a technique to this.

… and all things nice

I discovered the Steenbergs Organic Pepper and Spice website a while ago, and remembered them while pulling everything out of the cupboards looking for the garam masala I was sure I had another jar of, earlier this week. I love cooking and have been rattling through the spices recently cooking lots of Indian food, and … and all things nice

Clearing space on the shelves

I’ve been clearing some needed bookshelf space and buying the books I need for my next Open University course at bargain prices at Green Metropolis. I don’t have room for any more bookshelves so I’ve had to promise myself that I’ll get rid of some books before buying any more, so this is an easy Clearing space on the shelves

Dreamweaver 8

The latest version of Dreamweaver – Dreamweaver 8 – has been launched today. I was lucky enough to be involved with the Beta and so have been working with this new version for several months. So, is it worth the upgrade? If you use Dreamweaver for visual design, and in particular for CSS based layouts, Dreamweaver 8

Pants

So … I don’t post for two months, and when I do, it is for the sole purpose of showing you my pants.

Websites alienate Firefox users

This morning the BBC reports on a survey made of 100 leading consumer web sites – revealing that 3% were turning away non-IE users and a further 7% were using IE-specific code. The article then went on to explain why web standards were important – not only to users of Firefox but also in terms Websites alienate Firefox users